Skeleton Key

Anthony Horowitz

Apr 2004 · Alex Rider Book 3 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!

Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author!

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first. Uniting forces with the CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia.

Ratings and reviews

It's brilliant. The series is great, and Horowitz has created a character who people can relate to, personality wise. It's a classic series, and I thoroughly recommend it, although the 8th book really let the series down in my opinion.

I am a big fan of the Alex Rider series and I'm going on the fourth book now, these books are all my type and I never used to read books but I'm hooked on this series.

Best fiction-spy book ever!!! READ IT NOW!!! Full of suspense , thrill , daring and so action packed that I read it again and again .once u start reading it u just can't let go!!!

About the author

Anthony Horowitz (anthonyhorowitz.com) is a world-renowned screenwriter for film and television, having received multiple awards. And he is, of course, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider novels, which have become bestsellers the world over, spawned a major motion picture, and a line of graphic novels. A master of the spy thriller, Anthony is the only writer authorized by both the Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming Estates to write original Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels, respectively. Anthony lives with his wife in London, England; they are parents to two grown boys. Follow Anthony on Twitter @AnthonyHorowitz.